How to Stage Your Home with Feng Shui. Part I

If selling your home is proving to be a challenge, here are some easy Feng Shui steps to get you closer to the 'SOLD' sign.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Broom
• Garden snips
• Silver box or aluminum foil
• A few hours of time
• A little elbow grease
• Enthusiasm

1. Selling the house? Packing up? Moving on? Well, pull up stakes! Move forward. Advance. Pass ‘Go’ and, by all means, collect the symbolic $200!! Let’s see how Feng Shui can help – sooner than later.
   
   There are several areas in your home I want you to look at… and some suggestions might seem odd (but what else is new).
2. As you prepare to sell or take a second look at your home already on the market, be sure there is easy access to the front door, the Mouth of Chi. Check for the health of plants along the way – we want thriving, those less-than can be removed. Clip growth along the path that might be obstructing a view of the front door from the street, or impeding the step of a threshold-bound buyer. Sweep any remnants of last autumn into the trash (not the street). If the front door is not easily visible leave a light on to illumine the way – be sure all the light fixtures work. Don’t store bicycles, garden tools, or the garbage can on the walk to the front door and, please, make sure the door mat is inviting – you are in the process of welcoming someone significant to your future.
3. Take a look at the rooms in your home. Check for harmony or confusion between the function of the space and what’s in it. Please no ironing boards in the living room. The exercise equipment does not belong in the toddler’s room, nor does the fax machine belong on the coffee table. No packed and stacked moving boxes in the dining room. Align with a sense of agreement. Align with a sense of what makes sense.
4. Because the stovetop represents your abundance, keep it sparkling clean. All the burners must work, the lights and fans also. Because we have more than one source of abundance, get in the habit of using all the burners, not just the same one or two – open to creatively financing.
5. Make up a list of people helpful to your real estate project: your realtor, your mortgage broker, the painter, the neighbor holding moving boxes for you, and your cousin who knows how to drive a big truck. List everyone involved that you are grateful for. Then place the list in a silver box (or wrap it in aluminum foil) and place it in the Helpful People/Travel area of your home (front right corner) while setting an intention for the perfect buyer with the perfect offer at the perfect time.
6. Last, but far from least, give the Abundance/Prosperity area (back left corner) some clutter-clearing-cleaning time. Abundance certainly has to do with money, but more importantly a fulfilled feeling: “All is so right in My World!” To bring Helpful People Chi to this area, place the business cards here of the people mentioned earlier – yes, with gratitude.
7. I’ve written many affirmations for the sale of a home. If you would like to use them for placement around your abode, send me an e-mail with ‘moving affirmations’ in the subject line – they’re free. Also if you know someone who might benefit from this information, feel free to share these steps with them.
   
   Whether your move is from Baltic to Boardwalk, or somewhere between, my intention for your adventure is ever-expanding Joy! SOLD!
   
   In gratitude and with an intention to serve.